...well as those premised on religious reason from diverse traditions, can participate in dialogue and contestation regarding societal goals and the best ways and means of achieving them. By giving...
Best
The assassination of Benazir Bhutto
The best of all possible worlds
by Nermeen Shaikh...continue to think that the wars in Iraq and who knows, maybe Iran, will be the best way to make this world more democratic, more peaceful, more secure. And let...
here & there
The best-of bandwagon
by Daniel Vaca‘Tis the season for best-of-the-year lists, and the Religion Newswriters Association has gotten in on the action with their list of 2009’s top ten religion stories. They compiled the list...
Religion in the public sphere
An ideal of conscientious engagement
by Christopher Eberle...determine which of the feasible political options before them is morally best, and then they should support the very policy they responsibly believe to be morally best. When they do...
A Secular Age
Heraclitean spirituality: divine conflict
by Patrick Lee Miller...of conflicting opposites. His best examples are bow and lyre, since both must strain in opposite directions just to be the unities they are. But their unity in opposition reverberates...
Is this all there is
A new Jerusalem
by Anna Strhan
...knowledge that this is the best—the occurrence of this tree, of that stone, at that distance, in this light, myself undrugged and unhampered, in the best of health.” Perhaps, looking...
Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon
O tedious selfhood, O aftertaste of splinters
by Tracy Fessenden...line the best-seller racks in their new, O-embossed covers. It’s just that I’d never had cause to seek out any more Oprah. Nevertheless, by the time I got hold of...
Secularism: Its Content and Context
Secularism, belief, and truth
by Regina Schwartz...human rights founded on negative liberty—is going to be partial at best. It is because that Truth of how best to live together is a mystery, not fully graspable, knowable,...
off the cuff
Reflections on summer reading
by Dr. Richard Amesbury, Jason C. Bivins, Edward E. Curtis, IV, Tracy Fessenden, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, David Kyuman Kim, Cecelia Lynch, John Lardas Modern, Justin Neuman, John Schmalzbauer and Diane WinstonAs the summer months draw to a close, we’ve turned again to a handful of our contributors, asking: What are the best books and essays on religion, secularism, and public...
Just and Unjust Peace
Reconciliation in the real world
by Daniel Philpott...I note that practices like forgiveness and acknowledgment best take place after a war has ended or a dictatorship has fallen. This is a weak claim, though, and even it...